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f AGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957 Let's Write Some Letters To The General Assembly The u-jxomint; resignation of Dr. Reuben Hill should shake the University to its foundations. Dr. Hill, it is understood, is resigning because another educational intitution)tiered him more money than he could possibly" get here. - This is no'coiidemnation of the I'nixersity administration: on the contrary, informed sources say the University bent over backward to match the salarv offered Dr. Hill. But the University's treasury is just so deep, and deej) for ; us is shallow for huge public outcry. e, the students, can perform a great anil good deed in tins re spect. We t ail write letters, button hole legislators, and talk to the folks back home about the need more money lor tne i. niversi- STUDY IN IRONY A fvian iMamed tvasper tame And Clinton Turned Insi To! own d - LI if many other universities. It will not be a protest resigna tion: the Universitv has done all it can to make excellent scholars like Dr. Hill want to stay here. The whole thing,' in most cases, boils down to a matter of finances-. The state's General Assembly does not appropriate enough money to the .University to keep good professors and adininistrators-here. Around the middle of each aca demic year recruiters from other institutions start enticing our fac ulty members away. They usually hold promises of large salaries. They usually get their' man. In this manner the University has lost several good faculty mem bers in recent vears. And it is los ing Dr. Reuben Hill in the same manner. There is one conclusion, one answer to this: The state's Gen eral Assembly, which meets next month in Raleigh, "must approp riate more money for faculty mem bers here and at other state in stitutions. First, the General Assembly must be convinc ed that those faculty members are worth keeping. The University is currently 'involved in a campaign to do just this. But after the General Assembly is convinced, pressure must be placed on it until the Consolidated University gets what it needs. To do t.s, legislators are going to have to stand up. to the critic s of the University. st: .rcU up to those j win) oelU'e monev be used elsewhere, stand . .1 ! 11 11 .1 i nose I wno wouio siasn me vevsitl's appropriations just 1 causeithev know there would be should up to Uni- be- no lor ty. Chances are most of us won't, but it would be extremely helpful if we did. In a lew years this university's present student body will be alum ni. And in a few years the alumni will look back on Chapel Hill and wonder if what they did was right, and wonder what they can do for the University. We suggest that the Alumni of r.- lew vears from now undertake a little project to do something very good for the University. We suggest that the Student l egislature draft and pass a resolu tion asking the state General As sembly to appropriate more money for the University's faculty. Then, we suggest, members of the. Stu dent Legislature should address personal letters to their representa tives in the state Legislature, ask ing for the appropriation. The CardlxKird the Frank Gra ham Chapter of Future. 'Teachers of America, Chapel Hill Minister ial Assn.. members of Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity, Playmakers. Freshman Fellowship and members of the football squad can -do the same thing. Such action would surprise the General Assembly, which some times 'allows itself to believe stu dents are necessary evils in run ning a university. We predict it would make the General Assembly think a little about the faculty pay situation. . j Who knows? It might pay oil; Kasper is a study in irony: a 27 -year-old firebrand overpowered by a sense of history anfcl his own relation td it but still going against one of its strongest currents; the militant anti-Communist writing a tragedy that . can give complete . satisfaction only to the Communists; the political crusader with a states' rights pin on his lapel who interrupts his pleas for local sovereignty with prolonged attacks on Tennessee's governor and all of Clinton's elected officials. ' "There are a few sirKere segregationists in his group," says Buford Lewallen, the mayor's son, "but I'm afraid thaUthey're mostly people opposed to anyone who has achieved a little ma terial success. "I guess this is latent in any commumty, and it just took an anarchist to bring it out. These people aren't so much for segregation as they are against something. It happens to be inte- " gration, but they're against authority and looking for excitement." i ""' '"Rasper talks to them about Blackstone's commentaries, about. "Ezra Pound, and about his own interpretation of the Constitution, and they love it, even though they never heard of the first two arid don't understand the third." Occasionally, during the tedium of Kasper's trial, I would slip out and talk to his supporters. "John'll show 'em," they said. "He's I just as smart as Buford or any of, them." ' " ' I asked two of them what had happened in Clinton. ."The trouble was, a lot of people thought they were better than we "are. When one bunch rules the roost too long that's bad, and history shows . . ." The sentence was not completed. Kasper':? followers, alrnost never , mention Negroes except, indirectly in the epithet "nigger lover." "He's a modern Thomas Jefferson," another said of Kasper. "He wants us to have a university so we can alt. learn how to Tiivi" ; a government and run it." " . " 1 David Halberstam In The Reporter incident, he is a thin, bespectacled, hunched, and slightly balding man. "D. J.'s taken more pressure than you or I could ever imagine," a friend said ."He's surrounded and submerged by it, wakes up with it, and goes to bed with it I don't see how he keeps going." ' Perhaps it was a kind of hopeless desperation that made Brit tain resist the pressure with such determination. "Right now," he said at the height of the riots, "the only thing between that mob and those Negro children is me." Brittain has received so many threats that' he has changed his unlived telephone number four times. "But now they're trying to hurt me not only by threatening me," he said, "but by boycotting the stores where I do business, and threatening the faculty and try ing every other means of intimidation they know. It makes a man feel terrible when he sees his friends hurt because of him." As the crisis Increased Brittain became more ' and more out spoken. Hu- bitterness extends not only to Kasper and his followers but to the law-abiding citizens of the whole community, including the Anderson County School Board: "How can I feel the same way towards people I knew all my life as friends when they refused to stand up for what is right and found the nearest hole and said, 'I hope it doesn't hurt business'?" Brittain feels that he has learned "some lessons from his painful experience. "There are two things about this desegregation," he has said "Integrate on a wider basis when you start in the community, , and in the state if possible. We were the only school in Tennessee, aside from Oak Ridge, and the only school in the community which 'desegregated. ' ' :'It allowed the segregationi Hb concentrate all their efforts ' and attention' here and remember the people south of us consider "Tennessee a key state in which was the trend 'goes. So they've thrown in a lot here. We're not fighting these people for Clinton or Anderson iU . . . , ' -r ; "'' "'u'iVi' " " ivU; bounty . We're fighting for the entire South. The Citizens' Councils On the night of Nov. 5 Kasper spoke to his followers on temperr "l " . ..iUv. ..,;u , niMo,nt "are irjing lO SnOW lllc OUUUl IUUI ucscgjrganuu vim uc au uujjiuutwti. ance, since, aside from an election, there was to be a liquor referen dum the next day. Kas-per said he favored temperance because alco hol Was a part of the Communist conspiracy. "If you scan some of the lesser known writings' of the top Com munist officials you find that youth should be encouraged to wealth and luxury and alcohol so that 'they can be easily manipulated and enslaved." Kasper went on to attack Buford Lewallen for drunken ness and to charge that Lewallen had an interest in setting up a liquor store 150 feet from a church. . Kasper had in hk hand a petition that would set up a minimum of 1000 feet between the two. Then the college graduate who says he distrusts all educated men told his audience that "the -people' 5 ' - . '. ! I ... . . . i . . ' . . .'.'.' I... that no place will want to try it. "The other thing," he went on, "is that before you go into it, be sure you have your board clearly behind you and know where they stand and where you stand. Otherwise it just isn't worth it." For until the second series of outbreaks, no group in the com munity assumed a more neutral position than the school board. Then, when Brittain and half his staff threatened to resign unless they got help and when the Negroes refused to attend school unless "they got some guarantee of protection, the board was forced to How To Beat Book Racket We urge all students who want to sell their books at the end of the semester to sell .them through Alpha IMii Omega's non-profit book exchange. The service fraternity has an nounced it will., again sell used texts at the end of the semester on a non-profit basis. liy now, most stuckiits have found that they get robbed when they sell hooks at the University's The Daily Tar Heel The official itudent publication of tbe Publications Board oi the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatior and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second' class matter in the Dost office in Chapel Hill. N. C. undei the Act, of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year. S2.50 a semes ter; delivered. S6 a year, $3.50 a seme ter. - Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PLEL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Subscription Manager Dale Staley Advertising Manager 1,1. Fred Katzin Circulation Manager J ... Charlie Holt SEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link er, Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin, Anna Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes. Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein. Peg Humphrey, PhyllU Maultsby. Ben Taylor BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore. Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt', Dick Sirkirf. SPORTS STAFF: Bill King. Jim Purks, Jimmy Harper. Dave Wible. Charley Howson. EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears. Frank Crowther. Barry Winston; David Mundy, George Pfingst. Ingrid Clay. Cortland Edwards, Paul McCauley, Bobhi Smith. Staff Photographer Norman Kantor Librarian ... - Sue Gishncr Night News Editor Night Editor Proof Reader . Clarke Jones . Graham Snyder lfl Guy Ellis Hook Kxchange. To be sure, part, of the book money there goes to ward .scholarships "for needy stu dents, lint far too much of it gtes. The student who sells his text t the Iiook Kxchange receives only a traction of his original out lay; when the Kxchange resells the book it marks up a tremendous 'percentage. So, perhaps to give the folks who run the Book Kxchange a little worry-wM t, we suggest students sell books through Alpha Phi Omega's exchange. Better prices can be had. And you can buy your books there, too. at so'niething c lose to a decent price. Gracious Living: Number 12 One of the most gracious things this university town has to offer is its tradition.. There is a tradition about hon or, one about stopping by the Old Well, one about re-laying the Old Fast Cornerstone.' And there is a tradition about snow and foul weather at exam-time. This year, however," the snow came a little bit early. It came while students were still attending c lass, trying to get their professors to i. Spot their exams. '. Deliver a capsule summary of the course the students have been sleeping through all semester. While an obvious oversight on the part of the weatherman, we think it is quite unfair of the weather u start so soon. Snow and sleet and mud and froen sidewalks and streets are for the exam per iod. (".rations Living in Chapel Hill has suffered an abrupt and ill-timed change. The only way the weatherman can correct himself is for him to deliv er some more snow, along about the middle of next week. who can afford to go to! college are out to eet the neoDle who h'&ven't':u take position. - ;i ' been and cant afford Uo go," and tWwasr pari Wth'1 Alt fits! til offered ft), pay the Negroes' transportation and tuition Communist conspiracy. j , ' t m.W.'ff, '.' 'lto ; -Knox County .sehotfls, an offer 'the Negroes quickly rejected. Then .Then came the peroration: 'T-want to leH "yoli '-people that' yiP-litk r-ealeL a,! .deep :dalemnia th'ai many" . Southern communities may ;1 : Havej made hfstory herci that people all over, the worsld are watching have todeal with .in .the future: 'Each of the six board , members i J what'; 4y- 4oi Und applauding it, and .that you have, built a great' record favors segregation,. -but each suddenly, found himself the reluctant i;'and-a giiitj history. But I don't want; you to s,top. I want ytf itf ' int-4f ' desegregation. : (" , . , .: ,;;make Anderson County! the leader .for the entirp Southland.! LfU -l " Up lite Brittain and 'others whp had been compelled to take public ,V KYou have the best people in the 4worid 'to'" dV it. Peoile Would ..ilfllands,-;th'barA.weOTbers, Had" neyr4aken'anyj.8tand at ,all. But "come ' from over the world , just to SQe.ArvcJcrson, ,Od3rty?as,""a' 'thwi th ehips weref rfpwhrthe' .ard arinqunced' that it would sup tourici attraction just because they have heard 'what a Utbpia :it lis;- j?prfcBriUain eompletely, ?i ' ' " ' , ., ,t ' This Is not a' pipe-dfeirm. This can be done.""-"" ' j 5. .- j&ut he-w ,-do . yjou.. support a man completely at. this point? Give . ','H fritnj power ft epel .the students and get himself beaten up? Since When you 'ask Buford Lwa lifs, he says: "I'm no different lln what KsjiL- has don to hi ' from nvnmUUi hr Ha'-sha-'"' preventing...anyone; from violating that order,- the board met and terad it. You start op th street and you don't tWow whether you'll 8t there or not. He's set up animosity between people and groups, and thrown the whole town off its center . . When Kasper was acquit ted after his sedition trial in November, the wounds were reopened and Kasper's fol lowers began talking tougher than ever. "Things are going to be different around here from now on!" one shouted as the verdiet was announced. The next step for them The second of three articles by writer Halberstam, this inter- . . pretation of John Kasper will be concluded tomorrow. was simple and direct: A. chapter of White Youth for America was.' ' formed to start an anti-Negro campaign within- the school, where up to then racial incidents had been infrequent. It was this campaign that put Principal Brittain in his most difficult position. How does a man who does not have official backing discipline or expel some forty students? The egg throwing and pushing kept increasing until' the Negroes refused to go to school. Pressure also increased agairisf' Brittain. " "We wonder how long the people of Clinton," wrote II. V. Wells: ' Jr., editor of the local weekly, "are going to continue to sit idly by and see their elected officials kicked around merely because they insist that peace be maintained." ' At this point Brittain became the main target. A native Teri nessean and' the principal of Clinton High for ten years without L'il Abner asked for 'Federal aid,, 'Tne board's position," it wrote to U.S. At torney General Herbert Brownell, ' is that it hai" complied .with the law in opening, the school to all children and that it is the responsi bility of others to enforce the injunction if it is to be enforced. The board feels its duty is to obey orders from the Federal govern ment, not to enforce them." "Look, we're in a tight spot on this," said J. M. Burkhart, a hard ware dealer and board member. "We need help on it. It's just too controversial and too hot for us. The government told us what to do, but it didn't tell us how to do it. We're jud a little town with no experience in this and we need someone who has the experience. I don't know what kind of Federal assistance we can get but I know we need it. It's too hot for our focal police, to handle." Brownell answered that the i Federal government would arrest "all persons" who blocked integration" at Clinton, although at the same time he said that primary responsibility for the protection of students rested with local and state qffieers. The next day Anderson County officials met with Federal of ficers in nearby Knoxville and drew up a list of sixteen anti-integration leaders, who were promptly arrested and charged with con - tempt of court. Officials also served notice that the injunction would apply to 'students using any sort of pressure against the Negroes within the school. , Just as Gov. Clement's decision to send the National Guard into Clinton was the first invocation of state power to protect an inte grated school, this was the first use of the Federal contempt-of-court power to i-top agitation against desegregation. - x . By AI Capp DUNNO WHUT TlS UP THAR. &UT ITS GONNA BE MAN fpeJt- TOMBSTON E T.r J i HAIN'T ET NO MUL ;, -MUSHROOM ,. THEY MAKES FOLKS l FAX, PASTY S l I V &UT, NOW THET ALL HOPES GONE. AH MIGHT'S WELL DIE K- . "-w UFA1THV r' "t 1- 1 3.4 HOURS LAT&.R - V gib r Pogo By Walt Kelly TH!& TIME. AS'WXnSO AN' WAITBP 0UTJ ' AT F!8T THgS WA NO . VCZZ AS ftAW .IUA1C m HMrrV i l ,rs ivfc-r n T'cvi." n i n -r r i A vi 0 c' J t tit. CM 5 mi v if 5f- , SEGREGATIONALIST JOHN KASPER .."a modern Thomas Jefferson" s"'" NORTH CAROLINA 1970-PART 3 Facts Concerning N.C.'s Progress Gordon W. Blackwell What about 1970? Perhaps I have taken too long in getting around to a more detailed look at 1970. But this has been intentional. Not. being a soothsayer, I can merely develop the facts- which suggest alternative courses of action, given certain goals for the state irt. 1970. Some of these goals may be suggested. (1) To keep more of our most capable young people in the state. (2) To improve the education of all our peo ple, young and old. Our educational sy.stem at all levels must rank with the best in the nation. We cannot afford to-be mediocre iir education, much less 40th of 42nd" among the states. Furthermore, educational opportunities for adults are essential in a democracy. (3) ;:To .improve the he'alfh , and health ser vices of all the people. (4) To provide mcre adequately tor the un fortunate among us through' "increasingly skilled professional techniques and more adequate finan cial assistance., (To be continued) , . Sportsmanship Asked By Staffer Bill King King is a Daily Tar Heel sports writer who iras present at Tuesday's game. Here is a plea to the Carolina student body. When the Staff College basketball team comes to Chapel Hill Feb, 19, let's show it the courtesy that was denied us by the Wolfpack fans in the Coliseum Tuesday night. In the opinion of this writer the attitude of the State fans was downright disgusting. The Tar Heels were booed and jeered at every turn and this type of support can hardly be considered in spiring to any team. The Wolfpack will never take any sportsmanship awards with that attitude. It is certainly a shame that the State fans had to show themselves in such a revolting manner since their ball club played such a great ball game against the Tar Heels. This type of verbal jeering can bring nothing but the most infamous publicity to a school. When the two Carolina cheerleaders tried to get in a yell during the game, th? State fans began to stomp their feet. This wasn't so bad in itself, but the climax came when a State cheerleader got up and implored the fans to continue stomping. This is sportsmanship? The referees also received more than their share of the jeers. The Wolfpack partisans booed practically every decision that went against them, even the most obvious ones. Whenever a Carolina player .stepped to the !oul line for a shot, the gym was practically rocked with jeers and cat-calls. With 6:18 remaining in the game, Carolina forward Pet Brennan was fouled. When he went to the free throw line he was booed so loudly that the referee permitted him to step off the line and wait until the noise had subsided. Knowing that bedlam would continue to grow, Bren nan received a signal from the Carolina bench to go aboad and shoot. When he stepped back up to the line, he was greeted with the loudest round of boos of the night. Br-nnan, however, droppecK in both of his shots. The home fans finally gave their visitors a break when big Joe Quigg, the Carolina center, fouled out at the 2:36 mark. Quigg received a reluctant and modest round of applause and there were still a- good many jeers and waving handkerchiefs. Evidently the Wolfpack fans were feeling sorry for themselves over their recent misfortune? (Moreland, Pcnd, Richter, and McGillavery) and decided to -take offense with the Tar Heels. Too bad they can't realize that in all their basketball splendor, they too must face the breaks of the game. So once again this scribe urges the Carolina -student body. Let's don't let this same thing hap pen in Chapel Hill. Let the poor sportsmanship re main in the confines of Reynolds Coliseum.
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